A two-step synthesis of the 'Queen substance' of the honey bee

Article abstract of DOI:10.1080/00397919108016427

A synthesis of the 'queen substance' was accomplished in two steps from readily available starting materials. The key step was a novel one-pot reduction of 7-oxooctanoic acid to 7-oxooctanal followed by condensation with malonic acid.

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A Two-Step Synthesis of the
“Queen Substance” of the
Honey Bee
a
Greg W. Ebert
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Department of Chemistry , State University of New
York College at Buffalo , 1300 Elmwood Avenue,
Buffalo, New York, 14222
Published online: 24 Sep 2006.
To cite this article: Greg W. Ebert (1991) A Two-Step Synthesis of the “Queen
Substance” of the Honey Bee, Synthetic Communications: An International Journal
for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, 21:14, 1527-1531, DOI:
10.1080/00397919108016427
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